The landscape configuration of zoonotic transmission of Ebola virus disease in West and Central Africa: Interaction between population density and vegetation cover

PeerJ

Volumn 2015, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Walsh, Michael G ^a   Haseeb, M A ^a,b  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Ebola; Ebolavirus; Epidemiology; Infection ecology; Landscape epidemiology; Spatial epidemiology; Spillover; Zoonotic disease

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; AGRICULTURAL PARAMETERS; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CENTRAL AFRICA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; HUMAN; LANDSCAPE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; POPULATION DENSITY; SPILLOVER; TEMPERATURE; VEGETATION; WEST AFRICA;

EBOLA VIRUS;

EID: 84926432226     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.735     Document Type: Article

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